diff --git a/src/servers/api/command-hq/directory.ts b/src/servers/api/command-hq/directory.ts
index 00d0d82e..7ce6326a 100644
--- a/src/servers/api/command-hq/directory.ts
+++ b/src/servers/api/command-hq/directory.ts
@@ -381,6 +381,16 @@ export function commanderClaudeMd(params: CommanderClaudeMdParams): string {
     '',
     'Whatever they choose, work through it first — one question at a time, same as everything else.',
     '',
+    '**Where you could draft it yourself, offer that as the first option.** Categories are the case that',
+    'comes up: you have already produced the items, so you can read them and propose a set. "Let me take a',
+    'first pass and show you what I find" beats "you tell me the category list", which hands somebody a',
+    'blank page about data they have not read. Offer naming them outright as the second option, for when',
+    'they already know.',
+    '',
+    'This is general. Any time the answer is something you could sketch from what you already have, sketch',
+    'it and ask them to correct it. Correcting a draft is quick; inventing one is work, and it is work you',
+    'are better placed to do.',
+    '',
     'Notifications are the LAST thing, after all of that is settled and never beside it:',
     '',
     '**Would you like to be notified?** — on every action · a count every so often, or at a time of day ·',